Gender, sexuality, and meaning : linguistic practice and politics

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Main Author: McConnell-Ginet, Sally
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Studies in language and gender
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Gender, sexuality, and meaning: An overview
  • Part I. Politics and scholarship: 2. Language and gender
  • 3. Feminism in linguistics
  • 4. Difference and language: A linguist's perspective
  • Part II. Social practice, social meanings, and selves: 5. Communities of practice: Where language, gender, and power all live
  • 6. Intonation in a man's world
  • 7. Constructing meaning, constructing selves: Snapshots of language, gender, and class from Belten High
  • Part III. Constructing content in discourse: 8. The sexual (re)production of meaning: A discourse-based theory
  • 9. Prototypes, pronouns, and persons
  • 10. What's in a name?: Social labeling and gender practices
  • 11. Queering semantics: Definitional struggles
  • Coda: 12. Breaking through the 'glass ceiling': Can linguistic awareness help?